Ironing-board attachment.



G. H. TRIFSHAUSER.

IRONTNG BOARD ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT- 19, I916.

Patented Apr. 3, 1917.

Inventor Attorneys GEORGE H. TRIFTSHAUSEB, 0F BATAVIA, NEW YORK.

IBONING-BOARD ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3, 1917.

Application filed October 19, 1916. Serial No. 126,584.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. Tnrrrsrmnsnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Batavia, in the county of Genesee and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Ironing-Board Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an attachment for ironing boards, and aims to provide a novel and improved device of that character for preventing the clothes or other fabrics being ironed from dropping onto the floor, especially at that side of the board opposite to the person ironing.

t is the object of the invention to provide an attachment of the nature indicated which is extremely simple, light in weight, and inexpensive in construction, being con structed chiefly of stout wire, rods or similar stock, being readily applied and removed from the board, being foldable within small encompass when not in use so as to be compactly stored, and being practical and ellicient in use.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it bein understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing. from the spirit of the invention.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein the figure is a perspective view of the attachment as applied.

In the drawing, the ironing board is designated 1, and the attachment is made in two sections or parts in order to be more conveniently handled, since each section provides a unit in itself, and the two sections when folded can be placed together to be more easily stored than if the two sections were united. Since the sections are duplicates, only one of them need'be considered in detail, the same embodying a pair of hangers 2 provided at their upper ends with portions 8 extending at an angle therefrom for attachment to the under side of the ironing board. This is accomplished by means of plates 4 secured in any suitable manner to the lower surface of the ironing board and provided with depressed corrugations 5 for receiving the portions 3 by a sliding movement, whereby to support the hangers, said hangers being preferably connected by crossed braces 6 to render them rigid. The hangers are provided at their lower ends with coaxial or alining eyes or loops 7 for the pivotal connection of the shelf or basket.

The shelf or basket includes a yoke 8 forming the intermediate portion of a rod, which provides the frame of the shelf, and said rod is bent to provide the rearwardly projecting arms 9 extending from the ends of the yoke 8 and provided at their rear ends with outturned trunnion or pivot portions 10 journaled through the eyes or bearings 7, and stop fingers 11 project at an angle from the portions 10 and are provided at their ends with hooks or curved stops 12 to contact with the rear sides of the hangers 2 when the shelf is swung downwardly to substantially horizontal position. The parts 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 being formed from a single stout rod, provides a substantial structure. A rod 13 parallel with the yoke 8 is terminally secured to the arms 9 adjacent to the rear pivoted ends thereof, and fillers 14: are terminally secured to the yoke Sand rod 13 between the arms 9 and at spaced points, whereby to catch and sup port any clothes which drop or hang over the edge of the board 1.

WVhen the device is not in use, the shelf can be swung upwardly against the hangers, to fold the device, in which event the fingers 11 and their hooks 12 are removed from the hangers 2. The hangers 2 can be readily removed from the board by pulling the portions 3 thereof out of the keeper plates 4:. Said keeper plates are located near one edge of the board, and there may be other keeper plates arranged at different positions, as seen in the drawing.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. An ironing board attachment embodying hangers having portions extending at an angle from the upper end thereof to slip into engagement with keepers carried by an ironing board, and a shelf pivotally c011- nected with the lower ends of said hangers.

2. An ironing board attachment embodying a pair of hangers attachable at their upper ends to an ironing board, and a shelf having arms, said arms and hangers having a pivotal connection including eyes e'aras my own, I have hereto aflixed my signa- V ried by certain off said parts 1and pivgsporcure in the presence of two Witnesses.

'tionsexten in rom the ot ers an 'ournaled through said eyes, saidpivot POY tiOIIS GEORGE TRIFTSHAUSER' 5 having stops for supporting the shelf When \Vitnesses:

swung downwardly. 'j ALBERT H. Hnss,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing A. W. RIAL.

Copies Of this patent may be obtained for five eents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

Washington, D. G. 

